More from George Shultz on terrorism...
Stanford Report, January 23, 2002
Terrorists have taken advantage of weak nation-states, Shultz tells SIEPR audience
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BY LISA TREI
The concept of the sovereign nation-state must be reinvigorated as the fundamental unit of responsibility and governance if the war on terrorism is to succeed, former Secretary of State George Shultz said Thursday. >>>>
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US hawks embrace 'hot pre-emption'
By Jim Lobe
June 5, 2002
atimes.com
WASHINGTON - For geo-strategists here, the hot new phrase in the US war on terrorism is "hot pre-emption". Coined in a speech by former secretary of state George Shultz last week, the phrase has already been featured prominently by several influential columnists, including two who strongly favor pre-emptive US military action against Iraq, as a further refinement of the so-called "Bush Doctrine".
While President George W Bush has not yet used the precise phrase, he devoted most of his speech on Saturday to the graduating class of the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, to the idea that Washington will no longer rely on deterrence against terrorists but will strike them first, even if they are found, as in Afghanistan, across international borders. >>>>>
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Hudson Institute Doolittle Dinner Honoring George Shultz
Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 29, 2002.
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>>>>>>George taught me many things. He was the first to tell me that there's no such thing as an ex-Marine. I have to tell you, George, that after one of our Marine generals used the term "eviscerate" a bit prematurely to describe the Taliban in a Pentagon briefing, my Marine colonel who's my military assistant said, "We Marines may not know what eviscerate means, but we sure know how to do it." [Laughter and applause]<<<<<<
>>>>>>On a very different issue from our vantage point today we can look back and see how prescient George Shultz was in addressing the scourge of international terrorism. George advocated 15 years ago that the use of force must always be a last resort, but again he understood with whom he was dealing and said that force, even preemptive strikes, cannot be ruled out, as he put it, "when other means of influence have proven inadequate."<<<<<<< |
